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downloading gmails (beehaw.org)
submitted 9 months ago by toothpicks@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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my gmail account is full, most of the space is emails. I tried to download them through "takeout" and it has an option that says hey let's split this up into 2GB chunks. And you select that and it sends you one 12GB .mbox file regardless. The 12GB download keeps failing and now it says you've already downloaded these files too many times. Like gimme a break. Anyone have any experience with this? Any ways to get around the download failing or to force it to send you smaller chunks? Suchhhh a pain.

I hope to move to a different mail thing at some boint. I know y'all are gonna tell me don't use gmail dont use gmail lol.

Thanks!

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[–] Mutterwitz@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

I like to backup my mails with Mailstore Home and put the data on my NAS, maybe give it a try

[–] doeknius_gloek@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Maybe you could install a local mail client like Thunderbird and connect it to your Gmail via POP3? POP will download the mails and delete them from the server. Then you'll just have to figure out how to export the mails from Thunderbird/your client of choice.

EDIT: This article contains relevant information.

EDIT 2: Alternativly you could just use IMAP instead of POP to download everything and then delete the mails from the server manually.